7

Spoons Spring Fest 2025 - roasted dark sweet malty with notes of cocoa, coffee roast, singed brown sugar, smooth mouthfeel, coffee infused roasted malty finish.

7.6

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask, half pint.
Poured near black in color with an off white head.
Lovely coffee flavors here, chocolate pralines, toffee and light roastedness. Sweet porter, quite tasty.

7

On cask up the White Lady.
Appearance - deep brown to black, orange chinks and a soft beige head.
Nose - sweet coffee and chocolate with a roasty edge.
Taste - sweet coffee, toffee, dark chocolate and roast.
Palate - light to medium bodied, creamy and then roasty dry finish.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Cask up the White Lady. Pours clear dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of chocolate and coffee. Taste is sweet coffee. Does what it says on the tin.

6.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the moon under water Watford Jdw. A clear mahogany brown coloured pour with a loose beige head. Aroma is oily, coffee syrup, cakey malts, Kamp coffee, brown sugars,. Flavour is composed of dishwater note, brown sugars, cinnamon, coffee cake, oily, walnut bitty. Paalte is semi sweet, oily, bitty, mellow cask condition.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Beer Number 17 at the Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival 2025, leaving 11 of 30 still untried. Heavy dryish coffee influence, but remains light textured, and pleasantly so.

8.1

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at the White Hart, Aylesbury before heading off to see "Pretty Vacant: A History of Punk and New Wave" at the nearby Waterside Theatre. Nice looking brew - clear mahogany brown with a thick beige head. There's nothing subtle about the mocha - this is full-on coffee cream chocolates! Nice rich creamy mouthfeel too. There's a subtle roasty earthiness in the finish to balance. Really enjoyed this - an excellent post-dinner brew. Beer of the festival for me.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Third of a pint on cask at the gate house jdw.
Medium creamy beige head. Dark chocolate in the aftertaste

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading.] Almost black with an attractive ruby red glint and a tight cream coloured head; cocoa aroma; rich cocoa taste , but with a very thin milky body; then some blackcurrant and more chocolate before a dry fruity finish.